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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:

Scarab, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-06810-6931
Scope and Contents

The text consists mainly of dense overtyping of repetitive phrases collaged onto cardboard as a 2 x 3 grid such as "interior of my sphere," "thee like Ra, he praises," etc. The frottaged image in the middle right grid is a bony thorax overlaid by letraset formed words, SCARAB and SCARAB. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Scarab Poems, 2nd Edition, 1996

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-45028-47204
Scope and Contents

Poems were composed by d.a.levy in 1967 and most of the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. The covers differ between the 1st and 2nd editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Scream Poem One Man, One Woman], 1970

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-48113-69136
Scope and Contents

This is a partial printing of the Scream Poem over a grainy photograph of an erotic encounter. One of the prints depicts solely the text of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Scream Poem Two Men, One Woman], 1970

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-48114-69137
Scope and Contents

This is a partial printing of the Scream Poem over a grainy photograph of an erotic encounter between two men and one woman. Three of the five prints depict solely the photograph associated with the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-22196-22618
Scope and Contents

Cover painting by bissett. Len Early wrote the introduction to this selection of bissett's poems from 1962-1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

SH & 2, 1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-23894-24342

Solar (I,II,III,IV,V,VI), 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-13033-13325
Scope and Contents

This work is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue "Concrete, Experimental Visual" (1989). One collage (Solar VI) is framed and hung. Solar III is also reproduced in Mendes de Sousa, Carlos & Ribeiro, Eunice Editors: Antologia da Poesia Experimental Portuguesa: Anos 60 - Anos 80, 2004, a book held by the Sackner Archive. The Sackners lent these collages to the exhibition 'Poesure et Peintrie' (1991) in Marseile. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Spirit World, 1992

 Item — Box 205: [Barcode: 31858072460110]
Identifier: CC-29041-30379
Scope and Contents

The texts intermingle the early democratic principles of America' founding fathers with slavery issues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Struktur-Bruch/Bruchstaben-Gefuge, 1995 - 1996

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-27727-28837
Scope and Contents

The title translates to "Structure-Break/Structure-Framework." The image consists of two groups of densely placed Hebrew letters divided by a river-like blank space. On the left and right sides are several letters that are randomly, less densely placed. This could be a metaphor for the Red Sea, of the political schism of religious and non-religious Jews, or history's attemmpt to divide the Jews. Or it could be simplly a beautiful abstract, typographic poem! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995 - 1996

Texte: Auswahl 1962 - 1977 und Neue Texte, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-27270-27826
Scope and Contents

There is heavy emphasis on poems that involve solely numbers' manipulations in this book. The poems utilizing words are minimalistic in nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Texte und Kommentare, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-33602-35255
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive commentary by Bremer on his concrete and shaped poems. Photographs of the shaped poems are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Texte und Kommentare , 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-23509-23954
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive commentary by Bremer on his concrete and shaped poems. It includes photographs of the shaped poems are held by the Sackner Archive. Claus Bremer was born in 1924 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968